If you were given a shopping list with dairy milk on it what would you buy?

[Katieweasel]

Would you buy the much needed treat your DW had looked forward to eating all day. Or would you, like my DH, buy 6 pints of milk assuming the "dairy" was to differentiate between different varieties of milk! First and last time DH is entrusted to do the weekly shop unsupervised!

I would have bought chocolate. We buy blue milk and green milk (full fat and semi skimmed cow's milk) in this house

@bobbikato either you’re not English or you’re the only person in the country not familiar with Cadbury’s Dairy Milk chocolate.

(disclaimer: this does not mean you should go out and familiarise yourself with it now - it used to be delicious but now contains sufficient palm oil it has a curiously plastic texture and hardly melts in your mouth.)

Really? I am surprised so many of you thought ACTUAL milk 🤣. Who calls actual milk “dairy milk”?!

I only have myself to blame. He has form. He once popped to the shop and I said "get us a treat" and he came back with fancy bin bags

Here you go

Never a doubt what you meant.
Have you tried Aldi's? Much nicer.

DH would know to come home with 200g bar or large multipack. As for 6 pints of milk we would get through that very quickly.

But I agree with @RubaiyatOfAnyone - Dairy Milk is now very shit so don’t waste your money.

I gave my dh a list to get my ds cooking ingredients I put mincemeat on it and he came home with a packet of mince beef he was making mince pies lol

Hilarious.

Solidarity. I can feel your disappointment seeping through the thread @Katieweasel

I asked Dd to go back to the cheese aisle yesterday to get some 'Cow cheese'. She told me they did not have any and she had even asked one of the assistants. She was informed that there was goats cheese and sheep milk cheese. Anyway I went back up the cheese aisle and found 'Laughing Cow' cheese.

Ok, dairy milk I’d presume was cow milk as in semi skimmed eg not almond milk

Anyone who claims they would assume it meant milk is, I suspect, showboating

🤣 Nope, just vegan. And haven’t bought dairy milk chocolate for ages. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm sorry op but I couldn't help laughing but it is exactly the kind of thing my DH does even when I have written the brand name and price next to the item on the list.
It infuriates me because it means were left without the item because he didn't read it properly or simply forgot.
Now my DC are older they've started to make fun of their dad and one of them always goes with him on his rare shopping trips.

My dh would do exactly the same. That is partly because we have also have goats milk and various nut milk on our weekly shopping list. If I needed chocolate I would tell him specifically!

If I wanted milk, I’d write semi-skimmed or whatever.

I think even my dh - who does need things spelled out* when shopping - would know what ‘dairy milk’ meant!

*Not long ago he bought a joint of pork instead of gammon.
‘I thought it was gammon’ - said in injured tones.

Six bottles of dairy milk lol. I don’t keep chocolate in the house

@GCAcademic

I know someone who gave her DH a list which included loo rolls. He came back with 100 bread rolls. Fuck knows what he thought she was planning to do with them.

I think your friend is Bullshitting you. That story has been doing the internet rounds for years

That gave me a laugh OP, I’d be so disappointed! My DH is the same so I specify chocolate when writing the list!

Can I tell my story again? About a bloke I hear in M and S trying to buy some Hawaiian knickers his wife has asked for? He meant Brazilian...

@Katieweasel

I only have myself to blame. He has form. He once popped to the shop and I said "get us a treat" and he came back with fancy bin bags

😱 LTB

Seriously though what an idiot.

Dairy Milk is so obviously chocolate. But I suppose you'll have to write Dairy Milk chocolate next time (and specific the quantity/size of bar to be on the safe side).

We drink different types of milk in our house (children with CMPA) and if we want to clarify we say cow's milk not dairy milk. The latter is a weird thing to call it IMO.

I'd ignore it, Dairy Milk is nasty stuff.

'Milk' is whole cow's milk unless otherwise specified.

I would’ve done what your dh did and then been utterly mortified! Am an oat milk drinker though so the distinction does matter in our house! I suggest putting Cadbury next time just to make sure...

I use both cows' milk and oat 'milk' and sometimes goats' milk. I have never in my 72 years of life referred to cows' milk as Dairy milk, or even dairy milk, with a small 'd'.

Dairy milk, is a well know bar of Cadburys' chocolate.

I'd send him back to the supermarket.

Not read the complete thread but...
To be fair to DH the way Cadbury's Dairy Milk is today I think he has done you a favour.

You could always make a milk jelly...

... and then throw it away.